After my holiday I still had a couple of days off before work will start again. My dad and I (dad of course mostly) took this opportunity to finish my bike shed. It is done!

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At the moment at the WSRT we have a couple weeks of special observations. We only have couple of those sessions in a year. They are so-called VLBI sessions. These sessions are that important that the observers need to be around 24/7 in the building. This means they eat and sleep in the building. One of them introduced me to the so-called “VLBI sandwich”. It is a sandwich they eat from time to time during those sessions.

So how is it made:

Take two slices of bread, put a nice thick layer of peanut butter on them. Add a nice quantity of sambal. And for the finishing touch: add a whole banana. Banana you say? Yes .. banana.

Very weird combination, I raised my eyebrows. But I was sold after my first bite :-)

Well as can be read in this post me and cooking is not a big success. Anyways I have more experience nowadays. Got a new wok (this time an iron one.. beter for when you make mistakes), and some cooking books and other ‘kitchen tools’ for my birthday.

So time for some tasty new meals. I still need a “Kiss the cook” skirt though..

I am definately not a genious in the kitchen. I like to have a good meal. But I am waaay too lazy to spend too much time cooking. And I lack the creativity.

So I thought it was time to get my cooking skills some boost so I bought me a wok. As the lazy guy I am I decided to buy a teflon one. So on the first day to try it out. I decided to make me some nice Asian food. It was quite nice and I was a bit surprised. One thing…. burn mark in my teflon wok….

Using soap to clean it is a no can do. So I decided to put some water in the wok and let it cook. Unfortunately Top Gear was on and I forgot my wok with boiling water….

So now I have a perfect ruined 24 hour old wok. Oh well it still can be used.. But now I know what I should not do :-)